Marta Pessarrodona Biography

Pessarrodona Artigues and Marta ( Terrassa , Vallès Occidental , November 18 of 1941 ) is a poet, literary critic and narrator Catalan. He has also cultivated the essay and biographical genre. She is the author of books such as First days of 1968 (1968), September 30 (prologue by Gabriel Ferrater , 1969) Private Life (1972), Report (1979), on my side, our (1981) Selection of Poems (1994) and love in Barcelona (1998). In 1997 he received the Creu de Sant Jordi of the Generalitat of Catalonia.

He has been reading Spanish at the University of Nottingham in 1986 and coordinated by the International Commission for the Promotion of Catalan Culture, part of the Department of Culture of the Generalitat of Catalonia . It works on Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury group , and translated Susan Sontag , Doris Lessing , Erica Jong , Simone de Beauvoir and Marguerite Duras . His poetry, sometimes caustic and some lapidary is realistic, without apparent rhetorical often judgmental and ironic, and usually born of meditation or memory, but feminist commitment. Usually writes articles Today and The Times . In 1997 he received the Creu de Sant Jordi . In 2007 he published an anthology of his poetry. Currently (2010) is investigating Republican exile in the National Archive of Catalonia in Sant Cugat del Vallès .